Action Outcome Quotes

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Be very careful of military action. You will be judged by how it ends—not by how it begins.

If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! You are what you think you are.

Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation.

If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.

What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior is better predicted from their beliefs than from the actual consequences of their actions

If you believe that something is good, and you do it, it benefits you. If you believe that something is bad, and you do it, it is a very detrimental experience.

It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.

Only because you moved forwards, it doesn't mean you were effective. Sometimes it's the wrong criteria to be used.

Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.

The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past.